TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 24 November 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

First German contingent has.reac'irea* Constantinople. Two German 16$ in guns 'have reached Bulgaria, en route to Gallipoli. The first wool sale of the season in i Auckland will be held to-morrow. I It is thirteen years to-day since the | Auckland electric trams started running. • ■ I A Canadian munitions plant has been ! partially wrecked, it is believed by German agents. .: . .; The British Foreign Office denies the statement that a blockade of Greece has been established. . -.' 7' \ '■ German and Turkish reports speak of a violent offensive by the Allied forces at the Dardanelles. . ■;■ A French report states that Bulgarian, attacks on the Allies on Friday and Saturday were repulsed.. ' ' * There has been a slump in freight for Greek steamers, which have hitherto been in the keenest demand. ■ .... Amsterdam reports the rumour that' one of Germany's newest dreadnoughts struck a mine in the Baltic and-sank. A section of trades unionists in Syd? ney are moving in favour of closing liquor bars at the same time as other-retail shops. Flour in Adelaide win (be reduced to £12 a ton on Thursday, while bread ■will go down to 8d for the 41b loaf on.. Saturday. '• '--''.., ; •- It is reported that the' Germans and Turks are concerned, about the disappearance of nine submarines in the Mediterranean. Alice Franklin, a married woman, "■ of Whakatane, and her child of two years,., were drowned at the Whakatane Heads on Monday evening." ; '=*«: 'The murder trial in connection with : the death of John T. Perry 'at Kama-, rama will probably'be. opened at the • Supreme Court on Monday. The British War Office figures for the. total casualties in all ranks.'of the Bri? tish forces at Gallipoli to October 23 are' 94,242, of whom 6,886 were New Zea•landers. '.',::'... It is reported that; representatives of: two parties -in -the; British- Cabinet- have: agreed to the principle of one man "one" vote, and .that ;all-votes -shall have an equal! value.,"- '"" '.'"■■- ''■'. The ] steamer" Kwarito Marii," from Melbourne, had. trouble at Wellington with, the watersiders, who demanded a big" increase in pay, and the •boat-sailed:"!or. Napier to discharge. • ■- ,-.-.•'■ "The, Federal 0 has;- ar-. ranged with the Queensland' Government for. the purchase of next season's sugar crop at the same price— : £lß'p"er ton—as was given this year. ~'■ "".;"' ■--■■■-' " ROy Cotter, aged 12 yearsrwas ; killed yesterday at Waimate, .South Canterbury, as the result of a collision 'with, a-motor-'car whei.-he was ..riding on the wrong side of the road. 77 "- •It is reported from Hollands that the Germans arc boasting of a new?air machine building at Berlin, a" combination of Zeppelin, and aeroplane, which % to he the terror of London. .- The-."ffihies"-Buenos -Ayres.correspondent says that Germany is receiving cop-,.. ;per and wolfram from the Argentineconcealed in bales of wool..; and cloth", .and even in tins o.f corned beef. .. The. Auckland -Hospital.Board, in inquiring .for a junior medical. resident officer for the.; hospital, has 'found that there is a pronounced shortage of young doctors' in New Zealand just, now." •'.: "•' - TK e Feilding Board ,Education'7;is expected to resign as a protest' against, the alteration of boundaries; in the Wa- - nganui Education' District, by ■ which Feilding loses 2a schools 'and ■ oVer 2000. •pupils./, i-.T..." .'■'.". ..-..',*.. r,"-"_. -'.".. .'.:""-.'..:.' -~* -Anglo-Belgian forces, numbering* 300, fought a desperate : -defensive.", battle against a : mixed German, force of 1,500,' between . Rhodesia Africa,' and beat them off'with'consider? able loss. ■: - ".'_■- '-'•' ■-- —■ ■-- --—•■'• King - Gonstantine -is—qubted-A)y~trie ''Daily Mail's "correspondent-as having, said- "Whatever happens,-. France and : Belgium will never be too severe/on Greece,;whereas Germany is.implacable. My duty is .to save..my, country from the. horrors.of Belgium.^,,.',«—. „™.„,-.,• Mr A. C. Carmiehael; formerlyVMinister of Public,lnstruction" in the' 'New/jSoirHi Wales Cabinet, and the. founder of the rifle club : movement, has /decided; to en-, list, and- has;, set raising a riflemen's-battajioh of-a-thou-sand men-in.the next month.- •.•.<« ' Bucharest' reports- from -what is ' declared ,to be trustworthy infdteiationL that after a revolt-of 2,000 Russian oners on account* of "bad food, and in which they killed7two."sentries'; "their Hungarian guardi''massac*'e'd'' : the"rdti their disappearnce being put;"dowri";tq cholera.. .- -■■'• - --. ;'",".'", '. New.; plan "of' .Huapai ./ fruit' lands appears in thisr issue"On: p.s^fl..—(ArT.) ' ,White washing suede gloves, Z/ii]'4f/6; white kid gloves, 3/0,.3/11'—Tudehope's r •top of Syniohds St—(AdO-7----7 •"■■-' . Ohildrerfa-white -shoes from--Pears;pn's Boot Store, Newton, and-then-ail will go well at. the FlofaV Fete'in" the" Domain on Friday.—(A'di) ','■"■ "-•"—•" ; ™ "■-;■■"•<. Thegreat house for- gloves and hose. .Tudehope's. Black and white hose-from 1/ pair.T-r(Ad,);_.;. ;j;.';;: 77,' Bycroft's ideal.milk- arrowroot- biscuits for baby. ,Crisp, dainty, delicious.—-A2 grocer's.—(Ad.) : ~'..-' 7 7;."../: 7 7 7,. „"..,7' It is fair competition.- If Pearsbn-and Co., of the Karangahape -Road - .fame, can sell boots and shoes, cheaper- than any other. ,competitor,..and' still keep out of the Bankruptcy ...Court, then -the competition is perfectly legitimate.^Ad")